Roofing or siding shingle.



A. D. BIERMAN. ROOFING 0B SIDINGBHINGLE. APPLIdATIOH FILED AUG-6, 190$.I 974, 1 Patented Nov. 1,1910.

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ALBERT 1). BInRMAN, or COLUMBUS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE 'KINNEAR ANDGlacier;

MANUFAc'rUmNG COMPANY, OFF-COLUMBUS, omo, A conrofna'rronor onr'o'. f

eoorine on swine sinners.

To all whom it may concern: 7

ribs 9 and 9 are approximately parallel Specification of Letters Ia tents Application filed August 5,1909. Serial Nb. -51'1,s54.- J MfrP-a'tented Nov. '1,

ribs like those indicated at 10 and .11.

Be it known that L ALBERT D. BIERMAN, ribs 10 and 11 are inclineddownward'toa citlzen of the United States, residing at ward the middlehip of the shingle so asto. Columbus, 1n the county of Franklin anddeflect 'such water as may splash or seep up- 5 State of Ohio, haveinvented a certain new ward be 0nd them away from the jointing anduseful Improvement in Roofing or Sidedges ot the slat. The ribs 11 aremade 1ng Shingles, of which the following is a tapering in outline thesmaller end pointing speclfication. toward the middle of the shingle andthe The principal object of this invention is lower edge thereof lyin,substantially at 10 to prov de a shingle that when properly laid rightangles to the middle hip 9 and the up with shin les of the same sortwill direct jointing edge. On each side of the middle water away f i omthe joints. rib 9 are a number of embossmcnts as seen The inventlon isembodied in the conat 14, 15, 16 and 17 symmetrically arranged structionhereinafter descrit. nd particuon opposite sides of the middle rib or soas 15 larly pointed out in the claims. to form between them channels asindicated In the accompanying drawing: Fi 'ure 1 by the arrows inclined,toward the middle shows in plan View a section of mo comof the shingleand adapted to direct water prised of three of the shingles properlyastoward that portion of theshingle. These sociated to shed water. Fig.2 is a section channels are of increasing inclination or 20 on the linearr-00 Fi 1. Fig. 3 is a detail pitch toward the lower end of theshinglein sectional View slowing the joint on a and at that portion of theshingle the main larger scale. channel into which the lateral channelsbe- The shingles are preferably made of rectween the embossments dischare is deflected tangular or oblong plates of metal. At its outward awayfrom'the midd e line of the 25 right hand side edge the metal is bent toshingle. form a hip 5 the metal at the right hand The shingles are laidby lapping a higher side of the'hip being tucked inward and one over theupper end of the joint of two upward to form an inclined groove 6 withnext lower shingles and so as to cover.the a mouth that opens downwardthere being ribs 10 and 11 of two separate shingles and 30 enough of themargin projecting beyond the further, so that the middle hip or rib 9 ofmouth of the groove to form a nailing edge one shingle alines with thehip joint of 7. The left band edge of the shingle is bent two shinglesall as clearly shown in I*:ig. 1. upward to form a tongue 8 that can beWhen the shingles are so laid it Wlll be fitted into a groove like thatdescribed 18 observed that water on the upper end of 35 being formed atthe right hand side of tie the higher shingle runs first toward theshingle. Along the middle of the shingle middle rib of that. shingle andthen down and extending lengthwise thereof. in the 'inthe shingleadjacent the nilddle and finally stance shown, is pressed upward a ribor in a lateral direction toward the middle hip 9 that terminates at itsupper end in ribs of each of the shingles next below. In 40 two lateraldownwardly inclined ribs lying other words, the main flow or drift ofthe at opposite sides like those indicated at 9 water is always awayfrom the omts and and 9" each rib extending only part way toward themiddle of the shingles. Thls toward the correspondirg edge of the shinconstruction prevents the collection of wagle and in a downwarddirection. The lower ter for any considerable period in the neigh- 45end of the central rib or hip 9 is broadened borhood of the oints andtherefore, avoids toward each side so as to be of water width leakageand rapid rusting. It Wlll be parthan the space between the adjacentupper ticularly observed thatthe channels between ends of the exposeddownwardly inclined the embossme-nts lead in a downwardly 1nribs of thetwo jointed shin les next below clined direction from olnts near theoint- 50 to deflect Water awa Y from t e center of the ing edges of theslnng es.

shingle at that on and into channels to The form of the embossmcuts canbe deflect water toward the middles of the shinvaried without departingfrom the gist of gles next below as will presently appear. theinvention. Positioned beyond the ends of the lateral \Vhat I claim 1s:55 l. A roofing or siding shingle consisting llO of a, plateof suitablematerial having suitable- Jointing edges and a' middle r'1b expanded atits lower end, and inclined embossments between then iddle rib and the,edges oi the shingle ada ted'to formdowm wardly inclined channe s todirect water toward the middle ofthe shingle at. the up- ,per portionand toward the edges of the shingle atits lower portion, the width ofthe expanded lower 'end' of the middle rib being greater than that ofthe space between fthe adjacentends of the upper inclined exposedembossments ,of two similar shingles w en o n A roofing or sidingshingle having :1 1111 1e rib terminating at 1ts upper end 1n op ositelylaterally extending sho'rt r1bs each downwardly inclined toward the edgeof the shingle and reversely inc-ling ribs beyond the ends of saidlateral ribs and extending above and below said ends and in-

